Training and Advice

At HUUB we live and breathe triathlon and so we thought we'd start a series of training and advice pieces to help beginners to the sport and pro triathletes looking for marginal gains alike.If you would like us to write on a subject you would like to know more about, then use the form on the Contact Us page to tell us about it.

The most frequently helpful suggestion we make is to check you have fitted your wetsuit correctly. Check out the Fitting a wetsuitvideo; getting a comfortable skin tight fit on your wetsuit takes a little time and a couple of plastic bags to achieve!

Triathlon, Training and Racing

The season is officially over. The Olympic, ITU World and Kona World Champions have been crowned. You’ve done your post-season review. You’ve had a couple of blow outs that you’ve regretted in the morning where you’ve uttered the immortal line, ‘never again’ which quickly turns out to be your most short lived promise to yourself. Now what?

Open Water Swimming

Now we are in the off season for open water triathlons, you will reap dividends practising some skills in the pool. These are not eyeball out intensive sessions, but ones to give you some of the skills you will need to become second nature. Practising in training sessions will make these skills instinctive to you on race day in the heat (or actually more like cold) of the moment.

Group Swim Pool Training For Better Open Water Swimming - We hope you have been practising our technique tips for getting open water swimming training right in the pool. Let’s get you mentally and physically ready to take to the start line with some group training techniques.

Open Water Swimming In The Sea - Swimming in the sea is unlike other forms of open water swimming, but you will reconnect with the child that you once were as you dive through the waves. Try it and you will find – actually - that you love it!

Transitioning from Pool Swimming to Open Water - If you have been pool swimming and fancy the challenge of taking to the great outdoors, let’s help get you into open water for triathlons, for open water swim racing or just for fun.

Learning How to Sight When Open Water Swimming- Going in a straight line might seem a simple goal when open water swimming, but it can be trickier than it might first seem. Read this article on tips on learning how to sight in open water.

Seeking New Challenges

SwimRun races. What could be simpler? You swim then run, then swim, then run, then swim, then… well you get the picture. What started as a mad idea in Scandinavia, racing across an archipelago, has now started taking off over here. So let’s help you get race ready, but from your side of the bargain, we forewarn you that you will need to do some work.

Training for SwimRun: We won't lie to you. SwimRun is fun but the courses are long and so it takes commitment. Find out what you are letting yourself in for.

Getting into Duathlon: Duathlons, per the oft quoted Marmite analogy, are hated by some and loved by others. Once seen as winter racing for triathletes or a poor swimmer’s version of a triathlon. But not anymore!